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From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 167
Summary:

Thanks CD for telling her "such exact truth". She saw Thomas Carlyle at Keston – the country air has done him good – "he is half sorry to have been so unsociable on his first arrival".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 168
Summary:

Lord Derby was pleased by CD’s warm and genuine expression of approval [of his support of Vivisection Bill? see 9933].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 162: 169
Summary:

Count Schouvaloff asserts that CD’s works are prohibited in Russia. Is he not mistaken?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 170
Summary:

Sends fragment of bone from the head of a fish called "Corbin", brought from River Plate by her brother.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 165
Summary:

Sackville Cecil would like to be present with Francis Galton at one of William Crookes’s séances. Can CD arrange it?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 166
Summary:

Sends a bottle containing fish which Lord Arthur Russell had promised to send.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 163
Summary:

W. Crookes’s article ["Enquiry into phenomena called spiritual", Q. J. Sci. n.s. 4 (1874): 77–97] "staggers" her. Would like to know CD’s opinion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project